In the past I have written about food…I had a food blog awhile back but it got too much trying to keep up with more than one so I had to let my food one and my state on go to sleep…..
I like food…I particular love a really good burger…..that is a toasted bun, 2/3 to a pound of beef and mayo and spicy brown mustard…..the garden goes on the side with bleu cheese dressing…..
I wrote about a new diner in my area that specializes in burgers….but they have to tart them up…..worse thing you can do to a burger is get all “chefy” with it……but in case you would like to see what the new diner is all about…..
Some fast food burgers are not bad……Backyard Burger with blue cheese is yummy…..the bacon burger at Checkers is good and the Bacon King from Burger King is their best…..
That brings me to MacDonald’s……terrible burgers…they swing and miss…..but now they are trying something different……
The Food Network has turned Nutella into this super food and a trend….and MacD’s has bitten the hemlock bun……
Exciting news for Nutella lovers! McDonald’s Italy introduced the “Sweety con Nutella” to its menu and it’s basically a Nutella hamburger. Fair warning: If you hate Nutella, you’re going to hate this.
Made up of lots of gooey and delicious Nutella wedged between burger buns — it (thankfully) doesn’t involve any meat. Just Nutella and carbs. The dream, IMO.
If you love it, though, bad news: It doesn’t look like the Sweety con Nutella is coming to the United States any time soon, so you’re going to have to fake it. Get hamburger buns from McDonald’s and then add ~all~ of the Nutella to DIY. How’s that for a McDonald’s menu hack?
My Saturday begins and all is right with the world…..damn! I cannot say that without laughing……most of us are trying to decompress from the rigors of the election…..
Yesterday we celebrated our veterans….something we should do everyday…..but we do not have time for that…..once a year suits our bust schedules just fine…..how sad is that?
Since my younger days I have been an antiwar person….I witnessed the obscenity of war first hand as a soldier in Vietnam….when I came home I worked hard to end that war and to bring the troops home where they belong….
And since those days I have not faltered from the path of antiwar…..I believe there is always another option to the horrors of battle.
Now we are fighting terrorists everywhere around this globe…..since those days began about 7500 American troops have been killed and many many more have been wounded……
Most recently the war with drones has been used to propagandize war by saying that drones are used so that American troops will not have to be used and possibly killed……
In case you have been under a rock for the last 15 years and not aware of the drone program this short vid can help……
Drones do save lives built they also are indiscriminate killers of civilians also……
But in our rush to make war easier and safer for our troops we are making it possible that it will be here for a very long time to come……
The newest thing to “protect” our troops is the “Iron Man” exoskeleton for the front line troops……
In developments which have seen reality mimicking science-fiction, new technologies have enabled military scientists and research teams to develop robotic armoured suits for warfighters or military exoskeletons, like those seen in Hollywood films such as Ironman, Avatar and The Matrix.
Military exoskeleton suits, designed to fit around a dismounted soldier to give them almost-superhuman capabilities, can be fitted onto the body of a soldier in order to improve physical characteristics, such as strength or endurance, creating huge advantages for inboth combat and carrying out logistical tasks.
Although previous programmes, such as the Handiman project co-developed by General Electric and the US Military, suffered from serious limitations due to weight and mobility issues, companies including Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are now taking advantage of new materials and technologies to make science-fiction become science-fact.
But if that is difficult to get your head around then maybe this vid will make it easier……
Don’t get me wrong…I am all for keeping the troops safe from harm….but I believe that these programs are not doing that in any way….all they are doing is making extended war so much more easy to call on…..
On a side note…..the military is practicing a dangerous thing when it is experimenting with the brains of soldiers…..
Air crew, drone operators, and other personnel serving in the military’s most demanding roles may soon get a non-pharmacological boost: brain stimulation. Devices that use five electrodes to shoot weak currents into very specific targets in the cortex have performed very well in studies investigating performance under pressure, boosting cognitive ability in a way that could be safer than prescription drugs, reports the Guardian. Both modafinil and ritalin are said to be used off-label to enhance performance in the military.
In the latest study, scientists asked participants to keep a crosshair inside a moving circle on a screen while juggling three other tasks on the same screen for 36 minutes. One group had a constant two milliamp current beamed into their brains, while the control group only had 30 seconds of stimulation at the start. The constantly stimulated group began performing better just four minutes in—a “profound effect” that provides “new evidence” of a “human operator” having enhanced multitasking abilities via brain stimulation, the researchers write in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Not everyone is thrilled. “Even for those jobs where attention is absolutely critical, you want to be very careful about making it compulsory,” one ethicist tells the Guardian
This is a dangerous precedent……stop experimenting on our troops!
Do not misunderstand me…I want our troops to be as safe as possible……but they would be a lot safer without having to fight endless wars…..
